Reincarnated To Evolve My Bee Empire-Chapter 397: Natural disasters

I thought about it for a moment.

Plan B meant assassination of key political figures until the survivors were amenable enough to accept the bees as their new rulers. But if Judji people were as freedom-loving as the report said, it wouldn’t work, either.

Other information I’ve heard about them from Tamsha and other humans, as well as my Agents, only confirmed that.

’Plan C, then.’

C stood for "conquering". If these people won’t accept words, we will show them force! By now, there were enough soldiers free from securing the Eastern Expanse Reach to wage this war.

I gave orders to prepare the army, both of humans and of the bees led by Grand Commander Malevolence. The united army will move to the border between Naregan Kingdom and Judji Republic, then send its people another suggestion to become the Naregan Kingdom’s’ protectorate.

Compared to Judji, the Hatha Kingdom was much more cooperative. Although they didn’t like the idea of serving under the Naregan Kingdom, my Agents reported that they were so superstitious and religion-loving, that a few well-placed "miracles" would surely make them believe that Farini was the Prophet that Naregan people called him.

Adviser Whisper already prepared a project on softening Hatha Kingdom’s resistance with these fake miracles, and I gave her my approval to execute it.

The last one was the Kachi-Chi Kingdom, but... Its nature played a joke on our ambassadors. They were caught in a flash flood caused by a rain and the human ones even died, unable to save themselves.

Thankfully, the dragon riders with the squad survived, and when the worst of the storms ended, returned to the Bee Empire together with all my Agent Bees and the news of this story. The next ambassador that will go to Kachi-Chi will be more prepared... But it will still take time for the ambassadors for another ambassador to reach the place.

While the army marched, the ambassadors traveled on boats, and the miracles were faked, my hardworking bees (and their human subordinates) prepared humanitarian aid for the Barahi Kingdom.

Mostly engineers who could quickly arrange building manufactures for preparing canned food, and also human gatherers who (after learning from bees, of course) could teach others how to find the most nutritious and edible insects.

It all went well—at first.

Then, nature showed that it wasn’t done toying with us.

The stormy season decided to begin early and in more force than usual. Even humans, who were usually just chilled a bit by these storms, were affected this time.

Their sturdy buildings got leaks, their roads turned into mud, their fields—the last harvest from which wasn’t fully gathered yet—were being destroyed by water, and the rivers near their settlements were flooding.

For the Bee Empire... things were ten times worse.

And that’s although we were prepared!

The Oracles predicted the storms a week ahead, and I’ve had time to warn Farini about the storms. Not every area was equally affected, but a notable chunk of the Naregan Kingdom was, which included a bit of a Bee Empire and a lot of the sub-hives built on Naregan territories.

Thanks to this warning, the farmers at the area worked extra hard to gather their harvest before storms would destroy it, then protected the food stores themselves and their houses. Many people in future flood zones evacuated entirely and moved to somewhere higher up.

The sub-hives on affected territories also made sure to make large food stores so they could last a while without going outside.

Workharder complained to me about it all. Well, it was a report—technically—but she was very emotional about it.

"It’s terrible. The last time we got hit by storms of this strength was—imagine that!—two years ago. Several of our major railroads are still intact, thanks to their foundations—but the tracks are too flooded for trains to run there!"

"Hundreds of sub-hives all over the Empire have been cut off from others. Thankfully, the bees there have enough food to not die off, and humans can still bring them more, even with this weather. But still, those rains, Father! They are awful!"

"Some of our manufactures were also affected, and several mines—flooded. Mechas can’t work when there is so much water. I’ve moved them to drier places, but there are still ’rains’ as humans call those lighter storms. Rains everywhere, just like the Oracles predicted! Even places that aren’t being demolished by storms are being afflicted by long rains. Bees can’t leave the hives for longer than twenty minutes before becoming too soggy to fly without freezing to half-death!"

And this was just a top of the list of the problems these storms created.

The worst of them ended only a week later, and by then my plans were delayed, a third of one of the Naregan Kingdom’s provinces was flooded, and the army sent toward Judji had to make a detour to avoid the muddiest roads.

The only good news was that the ambassadors sent to the Kachi-Chi Kingdom actually reached their king.

The cyclone that poured water on the Naregan Kingdom had come from the Kachi-Chi. Earlier it had flooded the Kachi-Chi Kingdom, then came to us with more strength... But when I had to watch the rain outside Hive Supremo, the weather in Kachi-Chi was much better.

I was glad to hear that at least the Kachi-Chi’s king had accepted my ambassadors even more eagerly than the king of Barahi! He agreed to become a protectorate almost without negotiations.

But because of how many dead there were left after this flood in Kachi-Chi, I felt like this would be useless. The country was a soaked, rotten, hungry mess—it could not survive at all at the end of the day!

’We have three burdens on our back and a mule that needs a whipping,’ I thought, remembering the Judji Republic.

After the storms, and with all the rains that were going to happen soon (my Oracles rarely were wrong about the weather), I knew that we can’t help the Barahi and the Kachi-Chi Kingdoms at once. Not without Judji’s help.

I had to choose whom to help first...

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